Sewing-machine attachment.



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M. E. TYNES.

sswms MACHINE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED FEB.23. 19H.

Patented Dec 11, 1917.

MINOR. EUGENE TYNES, F GLOS'IEB, MISSISSIPPI.

SEWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Eec, ii, iaia Application filed February 23, 1917. Serial No. 150,541.

- To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, MINOR E. Times, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloster, in the county of Amite and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Sewing-Machine Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is adapted to be attached to the needle bar of a sewing machine, for the purpose of facilitating embroidery operations, and the invention aims to provide a device of this kind, which, being fashioned from a single piece of resilient wire, is so constructed that the material which is being embroidered will not be drawn, novel means being provided whereby the embroidery thread will be kept in a loose condition.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the, description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective showing the attachment applied to a sewing machine; and

Fig. 2 is a top plan of the attachment.

The embroidery attachment forming the subject matter of this application is fashioned from a single piece of resilient wire bent at 1 to form a V-shaped horizontal foot comprising arms of unequal lengths, the shorterarm 2 terminating in an upstanding finger 3 having a thread-receiving eye 4:, the longer arm 5 being flexed as shown at 6 to form an overhanging resilient extension 7 The extension 7 is bent upon itself intermediate its ends to fashion a threadreceiving' eye 8, the extension being bent upon itself to define a needle-receiving eye. 9 located between the arms 25 of the foot when the attachment is viewed in top plan. The constituent material of the eye 9 is extended to form a strip 20 disposed above and at an angle to the short arm 2 of the foot and terminating in an eye 11, the constituent material of which is extended to form an upstanding hook 21.

The needle bar of a sewing machine is shown at 12, and the needle appears at 14. The needle 14 passes through the eye 9 and because the eye 9 is located between the arms 25 of the foot when the attachment is viewed in top plan, the needle can work between the arms 2-5 of the foot. The hook 11 is engaged with the set screw 15 which holds the needle 14 in the bar 12. The numeral 16 indicates the embroidery thread. The thread is passed through the eye 8 of the extension 7 and through the eye 4, and finally through the eye of the needle. In practical operation, the exten sion 7 and its eye may move upwardly and downwardly, and in this way, the thread is kept loose, and the material which is being embroidered cannot be drawn.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is Anembroidery attachment for sewing machines, fashionedfrom a single piece of resilient wire bent to form a ll-shaped horizontal foot comprising rearwardly extended arms of unequal lengths, the shorter arm terminating at its rear end in an upstanding finger provided at its upper end with a thread-receiving eye, the longer arm being flexed forwardly to form an overhanging resilient extension, the said'extension being bent upon itself intermediate its forward and rear ends to fashion a thread-receiving eye complemental to the eye of the finger, the extension being bent upon itself at its forward end to define a needle receiving eye located between the arms of the foot when the attachment is viewed in top plan, the constituent material of the last specified eye being extended to form a strip disposed above and at an angle to the short arm of the foot and terminating in an upstanding means for engaging the set screw on the needle bar of a sewing machine.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MINOR EUGENE TYNES.

Witnesses:

H. R. BISHOP, W. R. PARKER.

Monica of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing; the commissioner of JE'atenta Waahingtonm. G." 

